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Getting a Grip on the Basics of Knowing How To Read Properly God's Word (Part 1): Questions of Discussion

The original article that I have wrote, "Getting a Grip on the Basics of Knowing How to Read the Bible" is very much basic when it comes to properly reading God's Word.  It is "unfortunate" that the leadership of many churches today especially both Charismatic and Pentecostal churches are ignorant when it comes to knowing "how to" properly read scripture. Scripture quoting and sanctimoniousness does not make a person a student of the Bible but if anything as my father said years ago, "Talking loud and saying nothing." (1 Cor. 12:1-2).  In order for believers to read properly God's Word is to take into account every word of scripture: that is paying attention to the author's original intent, the wording of the text of scripture, "small" words (e.g. "and") so as to bridge the gap between one thought into another, the grammatical structure of the context of scripture, and also such the immediate scripture as to its